Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-11-06
CHAT ABOUT TOWN
Gossip Oh a Variety of Matters Coming Under
RspOrtOrial Notice.
MINGLED FACT And RUhOR'
Interviews With Prominent People on Cur
rent Happenings, and
ILLUSIONS TO ANCIENT HISTORY.

lne present mOde Oh ulsPoSihS ni6"s
soil is not exactly the thing" said Health
Officer Reed a day or two ago. The stun
bumped into the furnace is completely
burned up, whereas the thing the city
wanted to arrive at was method by which
a revenue could be obtained from the Gre
matory. The furnace is all right as far rs
burning garbage is concerned, but night
soil ought not to be completely destroyed.
There ought to be a method by which the
volatile matter could be driven of, and
the residue, robbed OF its offensive proper
ties, sold as a fertilizer. 1t Is the best
thing in the world for enriching land, and
there might be a large revenue derived
from it. OF course, the city could not go
into the fertiiizing business very well, but
that does not alter the fact that so much
good material should not be utterly de
stroyed when there is a steady and grow
ing demand for it,"
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81 have inst come up from Moundsville
been released from the ~penitentiary,'
said J. G. Roberts, a fine looking man OF
more than average intelligence, as be
shook hands with the reporter, land
want to say a word for Superintendent
Robertson. He has introduced genuine
reform into the prison, and the condition
of the inmates has been greatly improved
since he went there. | know YOU remem-
Der Inc. / am the man who went before
the Board of Directors and had the use oil
the strap stopped, and my case was
one of those which led to the
late investigation. There has been no
whipping since, and the discipline is
better that it WAS under the reign OF the
lash. Captain Johnson, of the guards,
has done much in connection with Super
intendent Robertson to bring about the
improvement. The prison il cleaner than
before, and the general condition is better.
There has been but one death since July
10Th. | used to run Oh the Il. 80. road be-
tween this city and Pittsburg rs engineer.
Then | went down into Summers county,
where l married a lady under the belief
that my first wife was dead. ] was ar
rested and convicted of bigamy, and sent
up for two years. | never committed the
crime Intentionally, but had to 20 to
Moundsville all the same"
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''The theatre business started out with
a boom this year." said Mr.. Williams, OF
the Wood company, yesterday: "At the
opening of the season | suppose there were
more companies on the road than at any
time for q number of years back, but |
fancy n good many of them have struck
hard luck by this time, and by Christmas
a good many of the profession will proba-
bly, be out of a job. You see, the differ.
ence in railroad rates, under the inter.
State law, is such as to take away the
entire margin of profit of a good many
combinations. As you know, n good many
merely make expenses or q little over, OF
their trips, it being about as much as they
can do 10 pay salaries from IL week to
another. A good many Others do well if
they quit at the end of the season a couple
of Thousand dollars ahead. The new deal
the railroads mean that the first class
| have enumerated will lose a good deal of
money, while the second class will about
come out even. Why. | will illustrate
what / mean. 1t will cost me $l20 to get
my company from here to Baltimore. That
sum, under the old system, would carry
Inc from Louisville to Baltimore. That
ratio means an addition of 81, 800 or 81, 600
to my expense account, so you can see
where the weak companies will land"
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~ don't think the advent Of the five
cent fare'has made much difference in the
amount of travel on the street cars" said
President George Caldwell to a reporter.
'Only about twenty per cent. Of the
passengers carried by us before the
paid their fare in actual cash,
eighty per cent. buying their tickets
at the rate Of five for a quarter,
which made the fare the same as it is at
to all. To be sure, the receipts for
the past month show a total of about 600
more passengers carried than the same time
last year, hut that doesn't necessarily
mean the nickle rate enlarged the stream
of travel, for there is often a variation of
that much. Then the past month was all
good weather, which causes a larger travel
than if it is rainy, although the reverse is
popularity supposed TO be true. A larger
per cent. of the total number of people out
Of doors travel in the cars in wet weather
than in dry, but on a wet day only those
90 out who have imperative business,
in dry weather the ladies do their
shopping and everyone is on the streets,
and the actual amount o ftravel is greater"
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"Itis pretty near time this presumption
that everybody knows the law, wss ex-
said superintendent Warden a
days ago. THE laws ought to he
published in the papers as soon az passed
for general information. In old times,
when the country was thlnly inhabited,
md people knew everybody and every
hing which transpired, the presumption
If knowledge as 10 legal matters probably
'ested on a better foundation, but il il not
light. to keep the old-time adage in sight
low The truth ia, that the average Citi.
zen not only doesn't know the law, but he
las no chance OF finding it out until he is
up some day for infringing a
he didn't know was in existence"
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Here is something rather interesting"
aid a gentleman of q legal turn of mind,
yesterday, az he took his head from be-
tween the leaves of a musty old law book.
He handed the reporter the volume, which
proved to he Mumford's Reports Of The
Decisions Of the Supreme Court of Viz
sinia, published in Richmond in 1921. 1t
open at the decision of the Court / n
he suit brought by Jonathan Zane, in
1915, against the beirs-at-law of Ebenezer